You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I am when the Chinese, who know everything, build a house, they consult the precepts of an ancient science, Feng Shui, which… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We have assembled inside this ancient / and insane theatre / To propagate our lust for life / and flee the swarming… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
“The ancient rhythms of the earth have insinuated themselves into the rhythms of the human heart. The earth is not outside us;… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize… — James Risen Copy Share Image
I've been able to dig deeper into awareness of my own sinfulness, and take baby steps toward spiritual healing. I'm able to… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The guitar, by its very nature, the nature of its sound, by the soft nuance of its powerful and ancient voice, by… — Pepe Romero Copy Share Image
Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose,… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
The emergence and blossoming of understanding, love, and intelligence has nothing to do with any tradition, no matter how ancient or impressive-it… — Toni Packer Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our… — John Frederick Nims Copy Share Image
No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama… — David Frawley Copy Share Image
The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
It's a perfect moment to quietly meditate on the cosmic Great Mother who can inspire us all; the divine, feminine Spirit of… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Whoso meditates on the Omniscient, the Ancient, more minute than the atom, yet the Ruler and Upholder of all, Unimaginable, Brilliant like… — Shri Purohit Swami Copy Share Image
The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features… — Henri Pirenne Copy Share Image
My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While… — Bernie Taupin Copy Share Image
The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
Remember that feelings or emotions emanate from the more ancient, less evolved, lower part of the human brain, while thoughts are a… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
In the beginning, the feminine principle was seen as the fundamental cosmic force. All ancient peoples believed that the world was created… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is not “just beer,” it is a noble and ancient beverage which, like wine, food and television advertising, can be extraordinarily… — Stephen Beaumont Copy Share Image
Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn’t a compliment. “I will rend your limbs from their sockets!”… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find… — Henry Norris Russell Copy Share Image
The Ancient Egyptians were not fools, Carter. They built the pyramids. They created the first great nation state. Their civilization lasted thousands… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however, ancient, can be trusted without… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid,… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
How ironic that returning to a raw and ancient form of worship is now seen as new and even cutting edge. We… — Dan Kimball Copy Share Image
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